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From: Andrew <eagletalon@chartermi.net>
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Subject: Re: interest computing problem
Date: Tue, 16 Sep 2003 22:48:42 -0500
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Robert I. Eachus wrote:
> Andrew wrote:
> 
>>    New_Line;
>>    Put ("Your ending balance will be ");
>>    Put (Balance,1,2,0);
> 
> 
> I think this will fix your problem, if I understand what you think is a 
> problem.  If you want output in dollars and cents without exponents, 
> this will do it. Look at the documentation for Put in 
> Ada.Text_IO.Float_IO to understand why those numbers for the (otherwise 
> defaulted) parameters.
> 
OOOOH yeah.. that sounds very familiar.. I wrote the program initally in 
1997, and failed to properly document what things did and what they were 
for.

here is the output for the program as it is now
==============
How much money do you have-Please add cents? 1000.00
What is the interest you will receive? .02
How long will it be invested in weeks? 52

Your ending balance will be  1.00022E+03

============
and the ending balance should be 1020.2008 or more nicely written 1020.20
but I will try the change as you suggest.

.. .. .. ..

ok bit of a problem . now it says the output (or final balance is)
1000.22

that is not good.
and I had a friend who works at a local bank check the answer of 
1020.2008 and he says that, that is the correct answer.
any ideas?
thanks in advance.
Andrew